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Sandmagerrasenfläche

English translation: dry grassland on sandy soil


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08:09 Mar 20, 2011
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Environment & Ecology / Biotope creation
German term or phrase: Sandmagerrasenfläche
Dort wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Lehrstuhl für Ökosystembiologie der Universität xxx unter großem Einsatz der Standortmitarbeiter eine sogenannte Sandmagerrasenfläche angelegt. Um dieses Trockenbiotop zu schaffen, wurde der vorhandene Boden bis zu einer Tiefe von einem Meter gegen nährstoffarmen Wesersand ausgetauscht.

Alternatively known as a Sandtrockenrasen: Der magere, aber artenreiche Sandtrockenrasen oder Sand-Magerrasen ist vor allem in Landschaften mit eiszeitlich geprägten waldfreien, sandigen Höhenrücken und Moränenzungen anzutreffen. Die lockere, oft auch lückenhafte Vegetation aus Gräsern und niedrig wachsenden Kräutern ist graugrün bis bräunlich gefärbt.

Looking for the correct technical term in English. Simply "dry grassland biotope"?
Patricia Will
Australia
Local time: 10:10
English translation:dry grassland on sandy soil
Explanation:
Dry grassland on sandy soil
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Heidi Smith
Local time: 20:10
Grading comment
Thanks Heidi, this probably comes closest, especially as the text describes how the soil was replaced by sand.
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Summary of answers provided
4dry grassland on sandy soil
Heidi Smith
4area of acidic grassland
Lynda Hepburn
4 -1sedge lawn
Ramey Rieger
3dry grassland
Manuela Junghans
4 -1area of grasslandsConstantinos Faridis


Discussion entries: 5





  

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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
sandmagerrasenfläche
area of grasslands


Explanation:
Grassland

Grasslands stretch basically thousands of miles primarily in the continents of North America and Asia. A limited area of grasslands lies across southern ...
library.thinkquest.org/.../grassland.htm

Grasslands Biome

There is a large area of grassland that stretch from the Ukraine of Russia all the way to Siberia. This is a very cold and dry climate because there is no ...
www.blueplanetbiomes.org/grasslands.htm

Constantinos Faridis
Greece
Local time: 05:10
Native speaker of: Greek

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Cilian O'Tuama: you seem to have ignored the "Sand" and the "mager"?
1 day4 hrs
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
sandmagerrasenfläche
dry grassland


Explanation:
I also found lean turf as a translation for Magerrasen
http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do

Manuela Junghans
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:10
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 7
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
sandmagerrasenfläche
sedge lawn


Explanation:
I'm pretty sure

http://www.bbg.org/gardening/article/sedge_lawns/

Ramey Rieger
Local time: 04:10
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Cilian O'Tuama: I'm pretty sure it's closer to a meadow or grassland than to a lawn
1 day2 hrs
  -> could be, master, could be
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sandmagerrasenfläche
area of acidic grassland


Explanation:
Entry from Lexicon Landschafts- und Stadtplanung:

"Silikatmagerrasen .... syn. Sandmagerrasen [m], Sandtrockenrasen [m] EN Acidic grassland (Area with open or closed pioneer plant community, often ephemeral and subject to quickly changing temperature, which is composed chiefly of hemicryptophytes and therophytes growing on dry, weakly acidic, sandy soils or strongly weathered rocks or substrates of poor to moderately good fertility;...)

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Sorry, forgot to add link:
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Lynda Hepburn
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 36
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13 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
sandmagerrasenfläche
dry grassland on sandy soil


Explanation:
Dry grassland on sandy soil


    Reference: http://books.google.com/books?id=bdTfBfsl-DcC&pg=PA180&lpg=P...
    Reference: http://www.schnitzler-aachen.de/Surftipps/2001_27.htm
Heidi Smith
Local time: 20:10
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks Heidi, this probably comes closest, especially as the text describes how the soil was replaced by sand.
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Changes made by editors
Mar 21, 2011 - Changes made by Ingo Dierkschnieder:
Term askedsandmagerrasenfläche => Sandmagerrasenfläche


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